Safe and Healthy Buildings
Safe and healthy buildings benefit the community in many ways, bringing social, economic and environmental advantages. Our homes, our work environment and the places we may spend leisure time in all have influences on our well being and our enjoyment of life.
Ensuring health and safety requires a very broad approach and covers everything from planning issues such as the location and design of housing developments and industrial estates, through the design and construction of buildings, to their ongoing maintenance.
The Department of Public Works actively promotes a safe and healthy built environment. For example, it has produced guidelines for the design of cyclone shelters and the management of exposure to low frequency magnetic fields in the office environment. Amongst the many and varied activities undertaken to improve the safety and health of buildings and the wider built environment, the Department continues delivery of its program for the management and control of asbestos in all Queensland Government-owned buildings, it is actively encouraging the design of homes offering safer and improved livability for people with physical disabilities, and has a number of projects and programs in place to address air quality inside buildings.
The Department of Public Works, through Technical Services, will continue to actively work towards facilitating safer and healthier built environments.
Last Updated 22/06/2010
